送交者: xj 于 2006-1-23, 11:56:44:
A little piece in the NYT weekend magazine caught my eyes. It is about orange, specifically, the orange juice--Tang, the juice of space time.
Most people who are old enough to remember things in the later 1980s and earlier 1990s will know this orange product.
Under the Li's pen, the story of Tang is touching. My old memories flash back vividly. It is a life most Americans are not familiar, even a little bit exotic.
So it is amazing and also admiring for Li to recount the story, not in Chinese, but in English, and not in an obscure journal, but in the New York Time.
Li has published many short stories in well respected literal journals such as the New Yorker and The Paris Review. She has won several prizes including the grand prize of Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award--€50,000.
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Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. She has an MFA from Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Glimmer Train, Prospect, and elsewhere, and translations have appeared in Sweden and Mexico. Named by The Los Angeles Times as one of the three authors to watch in 2005, she has won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review, and a Pushcart prize. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons, and teaches in the MFA program at Mills College.